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Cause and Effect XII

The document discusses cause and effect relationships, including defining causes and effects, criteria for establishing relationships, and examples. It also covers language features that can indicate cause and effect such as markers, connectors, and structures used to connect clauses and sentences.

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Cause and Effect XII

The document discusses cause and effect relationships, including defining causes and effects, criteria for establishing relationships, and examples. It also covers language features that can indicate cause and effect such as markers, connectors, and structures used to connect clauses and sentences.

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Cause and effect relationship

A cause is an event or action that causes something else to happen. An effect is an event or
action that happened as a result of another event or action. The following are the differences

Cause : we can identify the cause with “because” it answers question “why”

Effect : It answers the question “what happened?”

There are criteria to establish a cause and effect relationship

1. The cause has occur before the effect


2. Whenever the cause happens, the effect must also occur. Consequently, if the cause does
not happen, then the effect must not take place. The strength of the cause also determines
the strength of the effect.
3. There are not other factors that can explain the relationship between the cause and effect.

Cause and effect is a relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or
others. This is a combination of action and reaction. The following are examples of cause and
effect relationship with causal conjunctions.

1. Because the alarm was not set, I was late to woke you up
2. The flowers died because I didn’t water them for three days
3. Since the meeting was cancelled, we went lunch together
4. It was raining, so we stayed at home

Writers often need to show a cause and effect relationship or connection in academic texts. They
do this in several different ways. Writers use noun, verbs, and verb phrases as cause and effect
markers within sentences. They may also use connectors to show cause and effect relationships
between clauses and sentences. It is important to recognize and understand language that signals
of cause and effect can improve our comprehension of academic texts.

1. Social function of cause and effect relationship


The social function of text which has cause and effect relationship is to explain or give
information about something.
2. Language features of clause and effect
a. Cause and effect markers
1. Noun
2. Verbs or verb phrases
b. Cause and effect connectors
- As aresult
- Because of
- Due to
- An account of
- Thank to
- In order to
- As
- Because
- Since
- So that
- Consequently
3. Structure of cause and effect

To form a phrase To connect clauses To connect sentence


As a result As As aresult
Because of Because Consequently
Due to If For this reason
An account of Since Hence
Thank to So that So
In order to Therefore
Thus

Identify the cause and the effect in the following sentences

Example : As a result of the strong winds, the roof flew off the house

1. Because of bad people, pandas are becoming endangered


2. These bags are made by hand and, hence, quite expensive.
3. Trees are sometimes called the lungs of the earth because they absorb pollutants through
the leaves
4. Coastal erosion in the natural process of the beach moving due to waves, storms, and
wind.
5. Since groundwater usually responds slowly compared to rivers, groundwater flooding
might take weeks or months to dissipate.
6. In order to be healthy and fit, you will have to take exercise regularly.
7. Since your painting is really good, I plan on displaying it in my coffee shop
8. Five years ago, the river was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead.
9. Due to the extreme and dangerous weather, the youth football game was stopped.
10. Thanks to a scholarship I received from this institution, I was able to enroll this university

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